Next to a firewall, anti-virus software is essential for protecting your computers and servers from attacks. McAfee Enterprise is especially important in an office setting where you have access to sensitive client or employee information. At the same time, anti-virus programs can hinder the activity of legitimate software by moving them to quarantine. Once you tell McAfee to trust the application, it will be ignored from future scans.

Open the VirusScan Console and click "On-Access Scanner" from the task list.

Click "Properties" and then "Exclusions" from the side panel.

Click "Exclude by File Name/Location" and enter the exact location of the file. Alternatively, browse to its location and click "OK."

Adjust the remaining options if necessary. For example, click "On Read" to exclude the application when it's accessed and "On Write" to exclude it only while being written to disk.

Click "OK" to activate the changes.

Tip

Another way to add a trusted application is to check the scan log, select the program from the list and click "Exclude if from Detection." If the file was deleted, open the quarantine in McAfee to restore it.

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Cee Jay began writing professionally in 2009 with work appearing on various websites. She has been repairing computers since 2000 and focuses on topics related to PC support/repair. She is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Franklin University and also studied advanced language arts at the Center for Arts and Sciences.